Weekend Review: The Knick, Outlander

Cinemax, the scruffy bastard stepchild of HBO, is the perfect home for Steven Soderbergh‘s harrowing hospital melodrama The Knick (Friday, 10/9c), which depicts 1900s New York City as a vivid Dickensian nightmare. Though described by the series’ severely flawed doctor hero John Thackery (a ravaged and mustachioed Clive Owen) as “a time of endless possibility,” this Age of Progress has its limitations, with primitive …